Orbit and Year

Orbit

Orbit noun - The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another.

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Year and orbit are semantically related In some cases you can use "Year" instead a noun "Orbit".

Nearby Words: orbited, orbiting, orbital

Year noun - The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun.

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Orbit and year are semantically related in time topic. Sometimes you can use "Orbit" instead a noun "Year".

Nearby Words: yearly, yearling

full	full orbit	full year
particular	particular orbit	particular year
normal	normal orbit	normal year
current	current orbit	current year
Other adjectives: standard, original, entire, real, successful, left, different, solar.

His life was forever changed during a class trip in the year 2016 when an artificial satellite fell from orbit.

Source: Manga / Linebarrels of Iron
She defines a year as the time for a full orbit around a star.

Source: Two of Your Earth Minutes
Amusingly played with in "Future's End", where after being sent back in time to Earth in the year 1996, they're picked up by an astronomer who attempts to communicate with the "aliens" in orbit by sending the SETI message.

Source: First Contact Math

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